Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...years, tosspots have been excusing their drinking by arguing that alcohol i) gives them "a lift," 2) helps them to do more work, 3) aids digestion, or 4) gives them heart to make a public speech which they would be too scared to make while cold sober. All four are just poor excuses, says the current Journal of the American Medical Association; by & large, alcohol is not a stimulant but a depressant...
Koerner's art runs right against the fashion. Most of his contemporaries make "paintings," not "pictures" as Koerner does. To them there is something almost vulgar about the word "picture"-something that smacks of photography. Koerner, they complain, is a mere illustrator, born 100 years too late...
...Henry. In the spring, Koerner's work is largely worry. By summertime he has worried into existence a dozen new ideas for pictures, sets out to find landscapes and models that correspond with what he has in mind. He sketches everywhere, with a fountain pen, often returns to make color sketches in gouache. By fall he is ready to start on the year's oils, which he finishes, all more or less together, in January...
...paintings on display this week were less dramatic than the old. "I don't make people so ugly or noses so big any more," Koerner says. "And I paint no more double images, ruins and posters. Just the straight realizing of everyday happenings. The emotion must come out of the organization...
...increasing emphasis on plot: "Slapstick alone will not hold kids. You need some sort of a story line. And, within the confines of this show, we can do almost anything." Anything within limits, that is. "We must never offend," says -Smith earnestly. "Whatever we do on Howdy Doody must make us the ideal baby-sitters...